Tommaso Perazzo (b. 1996) is an award-winning pianist and organist of remarkable technical skills and great creativity, and whose career in music, despite still being in its early stage, has been capturing the attention of important jazz musicians and critics. After a first period of musical training in Italy, Perazzo graduated in piano jazz from the Amsterdam Conservatory and, in 2018, was the winner of the prestigious “Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani”, a distinction that allowed him to record his first album (What’s Coming Next?”) as leader. The following year the pianist received a scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music, in New York, where he currently resides. Since then, in parallel to his studies under the guidance of jazz luminaries such as Phil Markowitz or Buster Williams, the young Italian pianist has regularly collaborated with other musicians and in 2022 released an album in trio format, alongside the bassist Dino Cerruti and the drummer Rodolfo Cervetto.

Born in Naples, Marcello Cardillo began his trajectory as part of the city’s local jazz scene, where he began to stand out given his enormous potential as jazz instrumentalist. After completing his musical training at the Naples Conservatory, Cardillo moved to Amsterdam in order to pursue academic studies and ended up becoming actively involved in the professional music circuit, which allowed him the opportunity to play and learn from musicians such as, among others, Wycliffe Gordon, Vince Mendoza or Alex Sipiagin. Currently, this Italian drummer is residing in New York and in the process of fully asserting himself in the international jazz circuit as a collaborator and sideman of important jazz musicians such as Buster Williams, Logan Richardson or Steve Wilson.

The musical career of young British trumpeter Alex Ridout cannot be qualified as anything other rather than meteoric. Having started learning of her instrument at an early age and after being accepted as a teenager into the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, Ridout experienced her first chapter of true prominence at the age of seventeen, when she was distinguished with BBC’s award for Young Jazz Instrumentalist. From that moment on, Ridout was automatically introduced to the British jazz scene, having been invited to be one of the soloists in the Euroradio Jaz Orchestra’s interpretation of Kenny Wheeler’s piece, “Sweet Sister Suite”, and, later, to join Clark Tracey’s quintet. In 2021, after moving to New York, Alex Ridout got involved with the North-American jazz circuit and has since then been developing an interesting body of work alongside Dayna Stephens, Jochen Rueckert or Renee Rosnes, among other influential contemporary musicians.

Born in Philadelphia, the city where he developed his musical identity and which continues to be his main center of gravity, Dylan Band is a saxophonist trained at the Temple University and with a prolific activity as a sideman for, among others, George Burton, Christian McBride or Orrin Evans, and as a member of the renowned Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. In addition to his collaborative work, Dylan Band leads his own quintet and is the co-founder of the Philadelphia Ambassador Big Band.

Gavin Gray is a young North-American bassist with a musical education in jazz and classical double-bass, currently studying at the Eastman School of Music. Despite his youth, Gray already presents a relevant curriculum in music as main assistant of the All-Nationals Symphony Orchestra, as a member of the 2019’s Vail Jazz Workshop and as collaborator of jazz musicians such as Ingrid Jensen, Marshall Gilkes and Alexa Tarantino.